From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:39:19 GMT
Subject: Re: git-commit fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Bad file descriptor
Message-ID: <478D19F7.9020308@nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <1200427202.5821.7.camel@gaara.boston.redhat.com>

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

> To my defense, the lockfile API is used a little inconsitently in git.
> Many places in git does a close(fd) and the call commit_locked_index(),
> which will close the fd again.

I bet they did that so that the return status of close() could be checked
since commit_lock_file() doesn't currently check it.

-brandon